A car accident puts Paige (McAdams) in a coma, and when she wakes up with severe memory loss, her husband Leo (Tatum) works to win her heart again. This plot has similarities to The Notebook, which also starred McAdams, and that’s no accident given how popular it is. Channing is a bit wooden in the trailer. Early critics’ screenings produced a so-so reaction. [Critics (via Rotten Tomatoes): 29%] [Public (via IMDB): 6.7]

Bleak Glasgow-set romantic drama about a chef (McGregor) and a scientist (Green) who fall in love as an inexplicable epidemic robs people of their senses one by one. Reviews have been mixed, with reaction ranging from “ambitious” and “moving” to “pretentious, with a wholly unnecessary voiceover”. The romantic plot is less significant than the trailer would have you believe. [Critics: 52%] [Public: 7.0]

Two spies (Hardy, Pine), lifelong best friends, fall in love with the same woman (Witherspoon) and wage an epic city-wrecking battle against each other to win her. I’m not sure Reese Witherspoon would inspire that kind of behaviour from men. The unfairly maligned McG (Charlie’s Angels, Terminator Salvation) is directing. Good cast, fun concept, but as with any action-romance it may satisfy both genders, or neither. [Critics: 26%] [Public: 6.3]

Neurotic ensemble rom-com about a pair of thirtysomething platonic best friends (Westfeldt, Scott) who observe the toll that having kids has taken on the couples they know (Wigg and Hamm, Rudolph and O’Dowd) and resolve to skip that stress by having a child together as friends and then dating other people. Megan Fox plays a girl who Scott begins to date, while Westfeldt sees Edward Burns. Of course they’ll probably end up realising they were right for each other all along. It’s directed/written/produced by Westfeldt who made her name by writing/starring in Kissing Jessica Stein. The premise is utterly ridiculous, but it’s a movie so what the hell. [Critics: 67%] [Public: 6.1]

In post-war England, a woman (Weisz) trapped in a lifeless marriage to a judge (Beale) begins an affair with a troubled former Royal Air Force pilot (Hiddleston), which throws her life into turmoil. Based on the 1952 play, this is a film about how love fails. It’s had strong critical reviews in the UK but not fantastic audience reaction, as it’s generally a bit dreary. [Critics: 79%] [Public: 6.2]

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I hope that ‘Friends with Kids’ will be quirky/cool like Juno – it is the story outline that most interests me from the 2012 romantic films. Though I worry the still frame above looks filled with fake over-hammed expression. Hope I’m proved wrong and it’s a decent watch.